Tim Jone provides us with a discussion of Neanderthal Hearths at El Salt Reveal Plant And Fish Remains. I’ve always found it interesting how behavior gets reinterpreted once a Neanderthal performs it. First, only modern humans ate fish and seafood, but when evidence indicated Neanderthals did as well the situation got reinterpreted. Based on this article we will probably see yet another.

Special Update: I don’t normally update a Fourstone Hearth after it has been published, but in this case I am making an exception. Check out this post at Anthropology.Net. Free literature – and Neanderthal related to boot….

[…] Four Stone Hearth 76 @ Afarensis Jump to Comments There’s water on the Moon, and even at lower than expected latitudes on Mars, not to mention a monstrous lightning storm on Saturn that has been on the go since mid-January. But none of that concerns us here, as we Earthlings possess a force of nature of our own which is much nearer to home, specifically a fortnightly anthropology blog carnival called Four Stone Hearth, which this time round is hosted over at Afarensis. […]

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"You may not be willing to admit that you resemble an ape; if your thousandth ancestor is more like an ape than you are, you may, if you wish, call it a coincidence. But if that thousandth ancestor's forebears become progressively more simian as you trace back the geneological lines, you will have to admit that somewhere in your family tree there squats an ape." Earnest Hooten

Charles Darwin

"But I had gradually come, by this time, to see that the Old Testament from its manifestly false history of the world, with the Tower of Babel, the rainbow at sign, etc., etc., and from its attributing to God the feelings of a revengeful tyrant, was no more to be trusted than the sacred books of the Hindoos, or the beliefs of any barbarian." Charles Darwin: The Autobiography